A UNIFIED THEORY OF SCOPE FOR QUANTIFIERS AND WH-PHRASES

This paper presents an analysis of quantifier and wh-operator scope in terms of a lexicalized theory of quantifier storage, within the frame work of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The proposed analysis pr ovides an alternative to the derivational approach wherein quantifier scope is determined at a separate level of representation via movement , and shows how scope of quantifiers and Mh-phrases (fronted or in sit u) can be handled in a unified way in a constraint-based grammar. Lexi calization of quantifier storage offers an account of scope facts in r aising and unbounded dependency constructions which have been problema tic in an earlier constraint-based approach to quantifier scope.